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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Cities in South Florida mopped up after Tropical Storm Eta flooded some urban areas with a deluge that swamped entire neighborhoods and filled some homes with water that didn’t drain for hours. After striking Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane and killing nearly 70 people from Mexico to Panama, the…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek has died after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years. “Jeopardy!” studio Sony says Trebek died at his Los Angeles home early Sunday with family and friends surrounding him. He was 80. Trebek presided over the beloved quiz show for more than 30 years. He was a…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is bracing for more impacts from Tropical Storm Eta, which has already brought heavy rains and flooded city streets in the state. Officials shut down public transportation and ordered some evacuations Sunday. Even if the storm doesn’t strengthen into a hurricane, its slow speed and heavy rains posed an…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Local health departments in Missouri don’t have enough staffers to conduct contact training for all of the COVID-19 cases popping up, so they have been prioritizing the ones they try to trace back to their sources. Contact tracing helps health officials determine where virus cases are spreading. Larry Jones with the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is testing how far he can go in using the trappings of presidential power to undermine confidence in this week’s election against Joe Biden, as the Democrat gains ground in tight contests in some key battleground states. With his pathway to reelection appearing to shrink, Trump on Thursday advanced…
WRIGHT CITY, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri pilot has been rescued after his plane became lodged in a tree during a crash. KMOV reports that Lincoln County Fire and Rescue officials said 78-year-old pilot Mike Fleming made his way onto a tree branch after crashing just before 9 a.m. Thursday in Wright City. More…
(AP) – Dozens of angry supporters of President Donald Trump converged on vote-counting centers in Detroit and Phoenix as returns went against the president Wednesday in the two key states, while thousands of anti-Trump protesters demanding a complete count of the ballots in the still-undecided election took to the streets in cities across the U.S.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than 3 million Missourians cast ballots in Tuesday’s presidential election. The turnout exceeded the previous high mark of 2.9 million voters in the 2008 presidential election. But the 70% turnout rate fell a little short of the 75% threshold that had been forecast by local election officials. The state’s…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Four-term incumbent Republican Rep. Ann Wagner has fended off a strong challenge from Democratic state Sen. Jill Schupp to win reelection in Missouri’s 2nd Congressional District, which covers mostly middle class and affluent parts of the St. Louis suburbs. Both sides spent heavily on the race heading into Tuesday’s election, with…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump carried Florida, the nation’s most prized battleground state, and then he and Democrat Joe Biden focused early Wednesday on three Northern industrial states in the race for the White House. Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania could prove crucial in determining who wins the election. However, the somewhat-normal back-and-forth jockeying for…